Re: billions across the world in english

I thought that 1000 hundreds, was a hundred thousand thus
a million is surely a thousand thousands!
Throughout Europe a billion is recognised as a million millions as far as I
know.

Ben Bradley
MSc CSciMM BA GArch DipLib

----- Original Message -----
From: Elias Thienpont <elias(at)assumptionabbey.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: billions across the world in english


> A confusion arises with the Million number, since a mil = 1000. A miligram
> is 1/1000 of a gram.
> I looked at a Colombian 2 Mil banknote and they meant 2,000 pesos (about
> $1.00 or some such, their smallest note)
> So our Million is 1000 hundred.
> Others will enlighten us!
>
>
>
> At 02:03 PM 6/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >I've run across something: does a billion in US English mean the same
> >thing as billion elsewhere.
> >
> >US billion:
> >
> >1,000,000,000
> >
> >enlightment would be appreciated.
> >--
> >
> >
> >Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> >         ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
> >           lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
> >    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
> >           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
> >                 - G'Kar  "Survivors"
>
> Br. Elias Thienpont OSB
> http://www.assumptionabbey.com
>
>

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